In recent years, music consumption has shifted towards streaming applications which offer users access to vast amount of music without needing to download or own it. While streaming technology also allows users to create music collections, maintaining a collection is optional as for the first time in music consuming history users can reliably listen to music outside their collections. To study the impacts of streaming on people’s music consumption, we interviewed ten streaming music application users who are strongly interested in music. Our results indicate that when using streaming applications, our participants tended to neglect collecting songs they liked. They explained this by pointing out that they can always search for those songs again, but the older interviewees confessed that their memory often fails them. Participants also complained that music is currently less exciting for them because the abundance of songs with little cost has cheapened their subjective evaluation of music. Participants experienced no clear boundaries to their streaming music collections, with one of them stating that his musical identity had become more fluid than it was before he started streaming. We discuss the tradeoffs between exploring of new music and exploiting collections and psychology literature that explains why selection to create collections is difficult when the choice of possible musical options is excessive and why neglect of selection can result in reduced listening satisfaction.

近年来，音乐消费已转向流媒体应用程序，让用户无需下载或拥有即可访问大量音乐。虽然流媒体技术还允许用户创建音乐收藏，但维护收藏是可选的，因为在音乐消费历史中，用户第一次可以可靠地收听收藏之外的音乐。为了研究流媒体对人们音乐消费的影响，我们采访了十位对音乐非常感兴趣的流媒体音乐应用用户。我们的结果表明，在使用流媒体应用程序时，我们的参与者倾向于忽略收集他们喜欢的歌曲。他们解释说，他们总是可以再次搜索这些歌曲，但年长的受访者承认他们的记忆力常常让他们失望。参与者还抱怨说，目前音乐对他们来说不那么令人兴奋，因为大量低成本的歌曲降低了他们对音乐的主观评价。参与者对他们的流媒体音乐收藏没有明确的界限，其中一位表示他的音乐身份比开始流媒体之前变得更加流畅。我们讨论了探索新音乐与利用收藏和心理学文献之间的权衡，这解释了为什么当可能的音乐选择过多时选择创建收藏是困难的，以及为什么忽视选择会导致收听满意度降低。参与者对他们的流媒体音乐收藏没有明确的界限，其中一位表示他的音乐身份比开始流媒体之前变得更加流畅。我们讨论了探索新音乐与利用收藏和心理学文献之间的权衡，这解释了为什么在可能的音乐选择过多时选择创建收藏是困难的，以及为什么忽视选择会导致收听满意度降低。参与者对他们的流媒体音乐收藏没有明确的界限，其中一位表示他的音乐身份比开始流媒体之前变得更加流畅。我们讨论了探索新音乐与利用收藏和心理学文献之间的权衡，这解释了为什么在可能的音乐选择过多时选择创建收藏是困难的，以及为什么忽视选择会导致收听满意度降低。